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Re: Compiling dpkg


On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 06:56:00PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote:
>Dave Korn wrote:
>>However, whether dpkg will actually do anything useful for you is
>>another question.  Debian packages don't work on cygwin and cygwin
>>packages aren't issued in debian format...
>
>Sigh.
>
>He seems to be resolute in his goal to get dpkg/dselect to do something
>useful under Cygwin even though it's been pointed out to him numerous
>times that it cannot possibly.
>
>http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-07/msg00492.html
>http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-07/msg00499.html
>
>So, can we please remove dpkg now from the distro?

Yep.  Done.  I've completely removed it.

Now who wants to tell him?  :-)

cgf


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